A change in hosting plans…

My attempt to have my blog hosted on MobileMe was short lived as was my strategy to compose my blogging entries in MacJournal and iWeb. MobileMe was simply too restrictive of a hosting platform for what I want to accomplish. The combination of MobileMe and iWeb is certainly adequate for the home user for a simple, personal web site. For a technologist like me who likes to tweak code and customize things.. just didn’t work. I have to say though… iWeb is just top notch for page layout and graphics manipulation.

My current iteration of blog hosting and composing is employing WordPress and MarsEdit. I first learned of MarsEdit from Bill Bradford’s Blog and his entry on Essential Mac Software. This is a great list of Mac Software for Mac users regardless of your interests in blogging. As for WordPress, it’s just one of the top blogging sites around and many of my colleagues are already using it so trying it out was a no-brainer.

While MacJournal does publish straight into WordPress and seems to do a pretty good job of doing it, I wanted to give MarsEdit a go and so far, it’s really been nice to use. It’s designed specifically to publish blogs and thats exactly what it does. No muss, no fuss. It’s customizable too and has given me a lot of flexibility with my attempts at blogging. So far, so good.

As for hosting goes, I moved from MobileMe (which I’m paying for) to WordPress which I’m using as a free blog hosting service. It’s been very easy and straight forward to use thus far. There’re a lot of widgets (such as Meebo Me) and configuration options that are easy to use. All in all, it does what it says it does and does it well. However, if I want to really customize things, I think I’m going to have to move to my own hosting like GoDaddy or Dream Host.

About Brian Greenberg

Brian Greenberg is a technology and product leader, Forbes contributor, and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. He lives in Chicago and has been working at companies of all sizes from the Fortune 100 to startups for over 30 years including international experience as an expatriate in Japan and Europe. In addition to being part of the Adjunct Faculty in the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University, Brian Greenberg is an award winning CIO & CTO, considered a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and visionary leader, accomplished at strategic planning, process improvement, product development, and reengineering of key business processes. Highly successful in achieving financial results through strong customer loyalty and long term relationships with suppliers and vendors. Ability to achieve business results through strategic application of technology to business challenges. Readily pursues "stretch goals", not afraid to take risks, and is grounded in a strong teamwork approach. Regarded as a skilled communicator, team builder and negotiator who maximizes efficiencies and productivity through boosting employee morale and performance. Brian Greenberg has expertise in digital transformation, automation, turnaround management, security, data storage, and data protection. He is also a storyteller and an improvisor in Chicago’s comedy community.